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Great riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York: on thursday evening May 10th 1849 – Antique Wall Art

Great riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York: on thursday evening May 10th 1849, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. — antique lithograph
Great riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York: on thursday evening May 10th 1849, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849.. Antique lithograph from the New York City collection.

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On the evening of Thursday, May 10, 1849, a crowd gathered outside the Astor Place Opera House in lower Manhattan to protest a performance by the English actor William Charles Macready, whose rivalry with the American actor Edwin Forrest had grown into a public feud. The police could not hold back the crowd, and militia troops fired into it, killing more than 20 people. Nathaniel Currier published this hand-colored lithograph soon after, one of the quick news images that let a wide public follow the event.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1849.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2868
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174643

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